Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl — who won a best supporting actress Emmy last year for her role as Izzy Stevens on the show — has greatly decreased her chances of winning one this year by, uh, removing herself from the race completely. And it appears to be a big "fuck you" to the writers.
Apparently, Heigl just didn't think her role was good enough.
"I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention," Heigl told L.A. Times columnist Tom O' Neil. "In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials," she added.
Now, we're not in the television industry so we don't really know how things work. But we are writers, and we do know that writers have pretty large egos. So we won't be surprised if Izzy finds herself back in that trailer park next season with a crack habit, bad acne and three-inch roots.
[LA Times: Emmy champ Katherine Heigl quits the race, blaming 'Grey's Anatomy' writers]
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